.Week 1 – Introduction/Overview
. Digital Literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.
. Further, a digitally literate person:
. ● Possesses the variety of skills – technical and cognitive – required to find, understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information in a wide variety of formats; ● Is able to use diverse technologies appropriately and effectively to retrieve information, interpret results, and judge the quality of that information; ● Understands the relationship between technology, life-long learning, personal privacy, and appropriate stewardship of information; ● Uses these skills and the appropriate technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, colleagues, family, and on occasion, the general public; ● Uses these skills to actively participate in civic society and contribute to a vibrant, informed, and engaged community. -ALA Digital Literacy Task Force (8/2012)
. Literacy definition: ability to read, write and understand text - comprehension, understanding, knowledge
. Questions of the day:
Why is digital literacy important to you? Do you have some of these skills already?
What is technology? How does technology evolve? What are some examples of technology? Old and New?
Where do you see technology in your daily world? Is it important to you? How does technology change our way of life?
What do you see as the most pivotal inventions?
What do you expect the future uses of technology to be?
What are the biggest changes you have witnessed in your lifetimes? How did this affect your daily routine?
Exactly how does the internet work?
What would you like to learn this year?
What would you invent if you had the chance?
Class Norms & Expectations
Respect each other, each other’s ideas and comments
Come on time, prepared to work and participate
Be present and stay seated
Manage your own time and work
Work together – collaborate/cooperate when directed to do so
Stay on relevant websites only
Use good citizenship rules for online behavior
Edit only your own digital portfolios pages
Ask for help after you have tried to solve your own problems
Assist each other, if requested, by showing how NOT by doing for
Raise your hand for teacher attention
Comments on projects are only of a constructive nature
Class continues until the bell rings—no one leaves the room
Follow internet district policies
Ask to leave for restroom
Sign out of accounts and log off computers when class is over
Fill out self assessment forms for each objective and project
View these videos - let's talk about it - they are not even current but make a powerful statement
Introduce yourself to me via two projects this week: Tech Class Survey - Google Form - click and submit please Word Cloud Generators- click here for link and instructions to two different ones Photopeach slideshow - click here for sample and outline - steps and instructions on handouts
.Week 1 – Introduction/Overview
.
Digital Literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.
.
Further, a digitally literate person:
.
● Possesses the variety of skills – technical and cognitive – required to find, understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information in a wide variety of formats;
● Is able to use diverse technologies appropriately and effectively to retrieve information, interpret results, and judge the quality of that information;
● Understands the relationship between technology, life-long learning, personal privacy, and appropriate stewardship of information;
● Uses these skills and the appropriate technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, colleagues, family, and on occasion, the general public;
● Uses these skills to actively participate in civic society and contribute to a vibrant, informed, and engaged community.
-ALA Digital Literacy Task Force (8/2012)
.
Literacy definition: ability to read, write and understand text - comprehension, understanding, knowledge
.
Questions of the day:
Class Norms & Expectations
- Respect each other, each other’s ideas and comments
- Come on time, prepared to work and participate
- Be present and stay seated
- Manage your own time and work
- Work together – collaborate/cooperate when directed to do so
- Stay on relevant websites only
- Use good citizenship rules for online behavior
- Edit only your own digital portfolios pages
- Ask for help after you have tried to solve your own problems
- Assist each other, if requested, by showing how NOT by doing for
- Raise your hand for teacher attention
- Comments on projects are only of a constructive nature
- Class continues until the bell rings—no one leaves the room
- Follow internet district policies
- Ask to leave for restroom
- Sign out of accounts and log off computers when class is over
- Fill out self assessment forms for each objective and project
View these videos - let's talk about it - they are not even current but make a powerful statementIntroduce yourself to me via two projects this week:
Tech Class Survey - Google Form - click and submit please
Word Cloud Generators- click here for link and instructions to two different ones
Photopeach slideshow - click here for sample and outline - steps and instructions on handouts
Learning.com modules - internet safety
TypingWeb.com- improve your typing accuracy and speed
Today's vocabulary you are responsible for:
ISP Search Engine Browser URL Robotic indexing spiders Search terms